Building Taiwan’s Second Shield

The silicon shield makes Taiwan indispensable to the global economy. A second shield must make Taiwan indispensable to sustained regional defense.

The Digital Night Market: Why Threads Is So Popular in Taiwan

Threads has become something closer to a digital night market.

Honduras’ Taiwan Question Is No Longer Only About China

Taiwan’s remaining diplomatic space will not be preserved by symbolism or nostalgia, but by understanding how third-party constraints, especially those imposed by the United States, quietly structure decision making in the global south.

Rethinking Taiwan’s Silicon Shield in an Era of Managed Diffusion

Taiwan’s security has never rested on production alone, but on where the technological frontier resides.

Strategic Conditionality: The Lens, the Compass, and the Blueprint of U.S. Taiwan Policy

Taiwan’s future will not be decided solely by American resolve or Chinese restraint.

漫長的自由之夏

漫長的自由之夏

2014 年,所有共同經歷過這一段歲月的我們,體驗了衝撞體制、警方毆打、媒體黑白顛倒、司法體系緊咬不放、當權者冥頑不靈等各種民主失衡的現象,也必當建立起奪回自己國家,拯救自己國家的決心與意志。我們的這一場自由之夏,才剛為接下來的暴風雨揭幕…

The Debrief, 4/29/14

The Debrief, 4/29/14

Taiwan’s nuclear energy controversy engulfed Taiwan in heated debate once again, US President Obama’s trip to Asia and its impact on Taiwan, an opportunity for sensible and equitable development in Danshui, and Japan’s whale hunting expedition.

The Debrief, 4/22/14

The Debrief, 4/22/14

A chemical plant in Tainan ‪and ‎Formosan‬ leopard cats in Miaoli; social civil unrest around the world; two left-wing leaning Taiwanese independent newspapers stopped publishing; and a new regressive marriage law in ‪Iraq‬.

The Debrief, 4/15/14

The Debrief, 4/15/14

In the Debrief this week, we wrap up some continuing stories from the Sunflower Movement, and UN’s climate change report and contraception in the Philippines. Finally, a sex party on a train in Taiwan sparks legal debate.

The Debrief, 4/8/14

The Debrief, 4/8/14

The aftermaths of Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement, the 20th anniversary of Rwanda’s genocide, protests in China over chemical refineries, HIV policy changes in Taiwan, and a US Senate hearing on US-Taiwan relations.

The Debrief, 4/1/14

The Debrief, 4/1/14

We update you on stories such as Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement, independence referendums in Transnistria and Venice, the peace treaty between the Philippines and Muslim rebel groups and more.